Professor Gilbert Strang will be visiting the Department of Mathematics from January 31st through February 2nd as part of the Department's Distinguished Lecture Series. He will be giving two talks.

Professor Gilbert Strang is a Professor at the MIT Mathematics Department. He earned his Bachelor's degree from MIT and was a Rhodes Scholar at Balliol College, Oxford. He has been a Professor at MIT since receiving his PhD from UCLA in 1959. He is an Honorary Fellow of Balliol College.

Professor Edriss Titi will give the SIAM Invited Address at the 2012 Joint Mathematics Meeting which will take place in Boston on January 4-7, 2012. He will speak on "Navier-Stokes, Euler, and other relevant equations." The abstract for his talk can be found here.

Dr. Dima Sinapova, a postdoctoral scholar in the mathematics department, will give an ASL Invited Address. Her talk is titled "Prikry Type Forcings and Singular Combinatorics" and the abstract can be found here.

Christoph Marx has been awarded the prestigious Chancellor's Club for Excellence Fellowship. The purpose of the fellowships is to "recognize and reward our most academically superior doctoral students who exhibit outstanding promise as scholars, researchers and public leaders. Fellows for this program are selected on the basis of demonstrated academic excellence, accomplishments and leadership qualities consistent with the mission of the Chancellor's Club to represent, develop and support our future leaders."

Professor Svetlana Jitomirskaya has been elected the Vice-President of the International Association of Mathematical Physics (IAMP) for the three year period beginning January 1, 2012, through a multi-step election that included a vote by all members. IAMP is the international body that unites mathematicians and theoretical physicists who characterize their research as mathematical physics. For more information, see http://www.iamp.org.

Professor Gunther Uhlmann will present the 6th AMS Einstein Public Lecture in Mathematics, which will be held at the George Washington University campus, in Washington D.C., on Saturday, March 17, 2012. The title of his talk will be Cloaking: Science Meets Science-Fiction. The AMS Einstein Public Lecture is given annually at one of the Society's eight sectional meetings. In 2012, it will be held at the Spring Eastern Sectional Meeting.